The Consortium

AlmaLaurea Interuniversity Consortium

AlmaLaurea Interuniversity Consortium (AlmaLaurea) includes currently 82 Italian Universities and about 90% of graduates in Italy. AlmaLaurea carries out annual census surveys on Profile and Employment status of Graduates at 1, 3, 5 years at graduation. AlmaLaurea is also part of the Italian National Statistic System. The project research team is led by Prof. Marina Timoteo, Director, full professor of Comparative Private Law at School of Law, University of Bologna. As Director, she supervises and edits the annual survey reports annually carried out by AlmaLaurea. The reports are jointly realized by IT office in charge with database management and by the Statistical and survey offices. Dr. Dorel Manitiu and Dr. Luisa Mengoni as post-doc (PhD in Law and Economics) are involved as researchers and project managers in mainly EU-funded capacity building projects in the higher education and international networking. The team implements a case study in Italy and contributes to all other WPs.

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 Prof. Marina Timoteo 

Team Leader

Marina Timoteo is a full professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Bologna, where she teaches also Asian Law and Law and Business in China. Marina Timoteo has been holding the following positions in Academic councils and Governing bodies of the University of Bologna: Director Confucius Institute since 2009; Deputy-Dean of the Law School from 2010 to 2012; Member of the Scientific committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 2009 to 2012; Member of the Board of Administration of the University from 2012 to 2018; Coordinator of the PhD Program in European Law since 2019. Since 2015, she is Director of AlmaLaurea, with a special commitment for the internationalization of services, skills and research activities in a global perspective, cooperating with other EU countries in line with the Lisbon Strategy, and also non-EU countries, focusing on the Mediterranean basin countries and most recently on East Asian countries. She has served as advisor and/or expert in Italian and European committees on issues related to graduate career, being part of the Commission expert group on Graduate Tracking (2018-2020). She was in charge of the overall coordination of the TRACED project, funded by the previous ERASMUS+ TRACKING-IBA. She is as well member of the Support Service for the European Network of Graduate Tracking “Working Group on GDPR and data protection issues”.